DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The strange death of Labour Britain and why the Right MUST unite

New MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, said after winning the by-election: ‘There is no part of the country the Green Party can’t win.’

If this is even partially true, Britain is in deep trouble. The Greens, once an alliance of valued environmentalists, now peddle a politics of jealousy, division and ugly sectarianism.

Their victory yesterday left many decent people worried and confused. They fear that the old two-party system will collapse and dark forces will move to fill the void.

To attract large Muslim votes, the Greens embraced anti-Zionism bordering on anti-Semitism and often appeared more interested in Gaza than Gorton. As a result, many British Jews will feel less safe today.

There are also malignant accusations from an independent observer about ‘family voting’; Asian wives are allegedly escorted to cabinets and told how to vote by their husbands. This kind of blatant misogynistic oppression needs to be fully investigated.

This article aside, the Greens have so far been exempt from the scrutiny other parties have been subjected to. Even a cursory look at their policy platforms is enough to show them to be dangerous and misleading cranks.

Free money for everyone in the form of universal basic income, legalization of all drugs, open borders, slavery reparations, and other crazy Leftist causes.

With classic far-Left disingenuousness, they claim that all this can be paid for by wealth taxes. Even though the sixth form is the most absurd form of politics, people, especially young people, are seduced.

One obvious consequence of this by-election humiliation is that Sir Keir Starmer is finished. The real question is whether Labor is heading in the same direction.

One obvious consequence of this by-election humiliation is that Sir Keir Starmer is finished. The question is whether Labor will go in the same direction

Between 1859 and 1922 the Liberals boasted seven prime ministers; one of them, William Gladstone, won four elections.

In his 1935 work The Strange Death of Liberal England, George Dangerfield attempts to explain the collapse of the party that dominated British politics for more than 60 years.

Between 1859 and 1922 the Liberals boasted seven prime ministers; one of them, William Gladstone, won four elections. Then suddenly they lost their political compass and collapsed. It would be premature to say that Labor is similarly doomed to disaster, but where does it go from here? What is its purpose? Who does it serve?

Labor MPs are not the children of work they once were, but human rights lawyers, think tanks, single issue activists, consultants, union buccaneers and assorted string-wearing blowhards.

While they spend their time obsessing over trans rights, assisted dying, and moving to Net Zero, places like Gorton and Denton are falling into even deeper decline.

If Labor can lose in this working-class area, it can lose anywhere. But what to do? If he moves to the Left to fend off the Greens, he leaves his Right wing open to Reform and vice versa.

It would be easy to say a new leader would make a difference, but none of Sir Keir’s potential leadership candidates have much credibility. This is a one-term government and they know it.

So how can the Right prevail in 2029? The reform did reasonably well yesterday, but not enough to suggest it could form a majority government.

An academic mostly seen on GB News, his strange choice of candidate and lackluster campaign reeks of apathy that should worry those who see Reformation as Britain’s only hope.

The Conservative Party was never going to stand in Gorton, but they are regrouping under Kemi Badenoch and should be ready for battle come the general election. It may be too early for a formal agreement, but an arrangement should be made within the next three years.

The alternative to uniting the Right is an imaginary coalition of Left parties. If this happens, this country will enter a spiral of disaster from which it will never recover.